Epidemiological research in the past decade has indicated that clinical and subclinical eating disorders are widespread amongst the female population of many Western countries. Following an introductory overview of some of the literature on anorexia nervosa and bulimia, highlighting the lack of diagnostic clarity in this area, previous epidemiological findings are reviewed. The eating attitudes and dietary behaviour of a female student population in a residence at the University of Cape Town are then detailed. The sample comprised 123 women, shown to be a representative sample of the residence population, and data were collected by means of the Eating Attitudes Test (Garner and Garfinkel, 1979). Results indicate that 13.8% of the sample population scored above the threshold score of 30 on this test; results are discussed with particular focus on specific attitudes and behaviours possibly indicative of anorexic or bulimic symptomatology, and which are elicited by EAT responses. Clinical interviews were conducted with those women who scored over 30 and who supplied their names (9 students); qualitative data obtained from these interviews augment the quantitative analysis of the EAT data, particularly with respect to the phenomenon of binge-eating behaviour. Findings of the present study accord overall with results obtained elsewhere amongst similar populations. The study does, however, call into question presently held assumptions about the nature of binge-eating, and the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
Robinson, C. 1986. Attitudes to food and weight : a survey in a women's residence at the University of Cape Town. University of Cape Town.


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House GOP's new midterm headache: Candidates tied to the Capitol riot
August 5, 2021 willmeet22
The GOP's political turmoil over the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeping into the midterm elections.
House Republican leaders have forcefully condemned the violent Capitol riot by Donald Trump's supporters. But the GOP campaign arm is now in the uncomfortable position of watching several of its own candidates face sharp questions about their role in the deadly siege that injured scores of police officers.
One of those GOP candidates, Derrick Van Orden in Wisconsin, has distanced himself from the violence, saying he left the pro-Trump "Stop the Steal" rally after rioters began breaking into the Capitol and that he never went inside. But another Republican congressional hopeful, Teddy Daniels in Pennsylvania, posted a video from near the Capitol steps with the caption: "I Am Here. God Bless Our Patriots."
Then there's Tina Forte, a long-shot GOP candidate seeking to unseat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who posed for a picture the day of the attack wearing what appears to be black body armor. In another photo from that day, the right-wing influencer displayed a white power hand gesture.
Those candidates' ties to the Jan. 6 attack are the latest headache — and in some cases, potential political liability — for House Republicans as they deal with fallout from the Trump-led rally that metastasized into a coup attempt. It's impossible to know how many of the GOP's still-growing crop of candidates this cycle took part in the riot. But Democrats are already preparing to lean into the issue of Trump-linked extremism within the Republican ranks, which they're betting will hurt the GOP in key battleground districts next fall.
And a panel assembled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including two Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, is seeking to investigate the circumstances of the attack, an effort that could keep Jan. 6 in the public eye for months.
Speaking at a town hall last week, Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota — who leads the NRCC, the House GOP campaign arm — declined to say whether or not he would support "patriots" who attended the Jan. 6 rally.
"The beauty of this country is that anybody who wants to run for office can," Emmer said in response to the question.
"I want as many people as possible who share our values to step up and be the voice and run for office," the National Republican Congressional Committee chair said in a recording obtained by POLITICO and first reported by HuffPost.
NRCC spokesperson Michael McAdams later added: "Chairman Emmer has made it clear — and still believes — anyone who broke the law needs to be held accountable … Unlike Democrats, we believe the voters will ultimately make these decisions, not dictators in Washington."
Many Republicans on Capitol Hill are eager to move on from Jan. 6, particularly when it comes to the involvement of the former president. Many have accused Democrats of relitigating the riot for political gain, particularly after a recent survey from the House Democrats' campaign arm, the DCCC, found that nearly six in 10 battleground voters had serious doubts about House GOP candidates. That result came after pollsters told respondents that the party "helped spread lies" about the winner of the presidential election and "encouraged" the mob at the Capitol.
"Republicans' Extremist Ringleaders Kevin McCarthy and Tom Emmer have willfully defended violent insurrectionists, furthered Trump's lies about the 2020 election, and promoted lies and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 — putting politics over the health and safety of the American people," DCCC spokesperson Chris Taylor said.
"It is clear that Republicans are committed to appealing to the extremism that led to the January 6 insurrection, and unfortunately for them, a majority of Americans reject that extremism and support democracy," Taylor added, while labeling House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Emmer as "extremist ringleaders."
No matter how much most GOP lawmakers would prefer to not talk about Jan. 6, they remain closely tethered to the former president who headlined the pre-riot rally. Many House Republicans have sought Trump's endorsement, visited his resorts for fundraisers, and invited him on trips to spotlight various issues.
That closeness matters in the midterms because Trump has also started to publicly revise the history of the riot, describing those involved as a "loving crowd" — glossing over the fact that police officers were stabbed with sharpened flag poles, covered with bear spray and otherwise pummeled by some in the crowd seeking to stop certification of his loss.
While GOP lawmakers have condemned the violence, with some criticizing Trump directly for his role in encouraging the crowd, the party's candidates who attended the Jan. 6 rally are already being forced to explain their attendance.
Van Orden — a prized GOP recruit from the 2020 cycle who nearly defeated incumbent Democrat Ron Kind — has sought to distance himself from the riot.
"When it became clear that a protest had become a mob, I left the area as to remain there could be construed as tacitly approving this unlawful conduct," Van Orden wrote in an Op-ed for a local paper, the La Crosse Tribune, explaining why he had been outside the Capitol that day.
But his exact whereabouts were disputed after a Daily Beast report revealed Van Orden appeared to be in a restricted area of the Capitol in a photo he posted to Facebook. Still, the former Navy SEAL said he categorically denounces the violence of Jan. 6.
In contrast, Daniels — a lower-tier GOP candidate who failed to advance in a primary against Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) last fall — posted about his attendance at the Capitol after rioters stormed the building. Daniels weighed in on social media to praise Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for her speech about choosing not to certify Joe Biden's election win after the insurrection was quelled.
Daniels has also amplified social media accounts that have attacked law enforcement officers who testified about defending the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Forte, one of the GOP's most inflammatory candidates with a tie to Jan. 6, has perhaps the longest odds in her race to defeat Ocasio-Cortez.
The Republican posted various videos and photos to her social media accounts that appear to show her at the Capitol during the assault. The same day of the attack, she told a Newsmax host: "This is our house, and we have the right to be here," according to a report by Slate.
Van Orden, Daniels and Forte did not respond to interview requests.
The trio of GOP candidates' connections to Jan. 6 are not yet publicly well-known. Still, House Republicans are certain to face questions about them as the midterms approach. Republicans are maintaining their position that anyone who broke the law should be held responsible.
"At this point, if you were known to participate in violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, you have probably been arrested," said Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who spoke broadly and declined to comment specifically on candidates he isn't familiar with. "If you've broken the law, if you did something to break the law, you should be arrested."
Otherwise, Banks deferred to Emmer and said voters should decide on candidates who were in the vicinity of the riot.
For Republican voters, a presence at Jan. 6 could be a selling point. In an era when fealty to the former president is one of — if not the — most animating issue in a GOP primary, attendance at an event meant to soothe Trump's ego can be a powerful way for a candidate to signal loyalty.
And in deep-red seats, candidates don't have to sweat the electoral ramifications. Candidates in Wyoming's at-large seat, where Trump is on a crusade to unite the party behind a candidate to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), have been openly bragging about their attempts to support Trump's baseless challenge to the 2020 election.
One Cheney challenger, state Rep. Chuck Gray, frequently mentions that he went to Arizona to boost the Maricopa County audit; another, attorney Darin Smith, has touted his Washington, D.C. visit on Jan. 6 (though he said he did not go in the Capitol building or past any police barricades). Trump interviewed both ahead of a potential endorsement in the race.
"Donald Trump, he asked us, he said: 'Hey, come to the Capitol come and demand a fair and audited election, exercise your constitutional rights," Smith said. "And so that's exactly what I did."
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Jacob Soll/ August 20, 2018
After the Financial Crisis, A Decade of Damage
Adam Tooze's new book traces today's political breakdowns to the 2008 crash.
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We already know much of the story that Adam Tooze tells in Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, his ambitious study of the causes and effects of the financial meltdown that caused the Great Recession. The opening pages of his book recount the events of September 16, 2008, "the day after Lehman." In a matter of hours, the Dow Jones plummets "778 points, wiping $1.2 trillion off the value of American businesses." The entire financial system begins to unravel and it becomes clear that the mortgage-based CDOs and credit default swaps that underpinned world banking are nearly worthless. Mutual funds pull back from investing and banks face an immediate shortage of funding. World lending begins to freeze altogether. European countries face capital shortages. The entire world economic system is on the edge of collapse.
CRASHED: HOW A DECADE OF FINANCIAL CRISES CHANGED THE WORLD by Adam Tooze
Viking, 720 pp., $35.00
But Tooze is not simply telling a story of the financial crisis. Crashed is also the tale of the political intricacies of the crash, the ensuing bailout, and of the great political unraveling that has followed. He documents the descent into recession in 2008 as housing values plummeted and the average net worth of the middle class American household halved from $107,000 to $57,800 in a year. American car sales came to a near halt, sending a reaction through the global manufacturing chain. Chrysler and General Motors teetered on bankruptcy; Mexico, a major center in North American car manufacturing, reeled as its non-petroleum exports dropped by 28 percent and its GDP contracted 7 percent over the year. By 2009, the crisis had spread worldwide, with Germany's exports falling 34 percent. GDP dropped around the world and a credit crunch caused poorer, over-indebted European nations like Portugal and Greece into virtual bankruptcy.
Although the bailout of American investment banks prevented total world economic meltdown, it did not instill the public with trust in the government or institutions. Their failure to prevent massive declines in the standard of living would discredit establishment politicians on both the center left and right. Whereas average citizens lost huge chunks of their wealth and buying power, the banks got a bailout and the people responsible for the crisis walked away, not only without jail time but, in many cases, with handsome golden parachutes, funded by taxpayer money.
What looked like an American mortgage debacle ended up as a world financial crisis that has shaken the foundations of liberal democracy from Washington and Rome to Istanbul. Tooze shows the global nature of financial and political breakdowns, which have otherwise been linked to local factors. Although it is a stretch to compare Turkey and former eastern bloc countries to the UK, the US and Italy—where liberal democracy is under attack, but has not yet ceased to function—what this book makes clear is that one more crash could very well be the tipping point for Western democracy.
A scholar of early twentieth century European economic history, Tooze has chosen here to write a history of the recent past on a global scale. To regular readers of the Financial Times, or of IMF, OECD, World Bank, and European Commission reports, most of the details in this book will be familiar. But it is the configuration of Tooze's analysis that is novel—he darts from the crisis in Washington to monetary politics in Europe, and on to Chinese fiscal policy to explain how interconnected each of these countries' economies are. This sends a clear message to those who believe in nationalist economic policies: We are all in this together, to a greater extent than financial institutions and governments have made clear.
Many see the origins of 2008 in America's deregulated and undercapitalized banks. There is no question that they created a mortgage crisis that morphed into a financial crisis as toxic subprime CDOs—a financial product of mortgage, mortgage insurance, and bonds pooled together as collateral for the product itself—became worthless. American banks were overleveraged at 20:1 in subprime assets, which means that for every 20 dollars of risk investment, they held, by US law, only one dollar of actual capital guarantee. But, Tooze seeks to demonstrate, the crash was not solely about the United States; it was an international phenomenon.
The American financial playing field, he shows, was designed in great part by Europeans in the 1980s. When German, Swiss, French and Dutch banks began to buy into the city of London as a "springboard" to US markets, they also developed and spread the dangerous CDO products. And, as the economists Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig have long shown, European banks were even more undercapitalized than the Americans with Deustchebank, UBS and Barclays averaging 40:1 risk exposure. Tooze makes a convincing case that the crash came from a failure of international regulation and the lack of political will to limit a dangerous system of financial risk.
Tooze is careful to show that the crash was not simply the fault of banks and regulators. National governments also flouted financial responsibility at every level. Starting in 1995, many European countries began an unsustainable borrowing spree that began in 1995 and continues to this day in the US, Europe and beyond. As Tooze shows, debt-to-GDP ratios have skyrocketed in Europe. In Spain, Portugal and Greece debt went from the EU stipulated maximum of 60 percent of GDP to well over 100 percent. The same was happening in Italy and France, and indeed, the US and Japan. This meant that even major countries could not, and still cannot, realistically pay off their debt.
What Tooze does not say is that most countries are much poorer than they think they are. They face the daunting challenge of somehow convincing their publics to cut spending and raise taxes or face downgrades, defaults and more financial crises. The likelihood of future crashes may be even greater than he suggests.
Tooze's most insistent point is that the 2008 crash created the conditions for "illiberal democracy." The success of the Tea Party and the American far-right, he argues, grew directly from it: Once George W. Bush, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke realized that they needed to spend $700 billion to nationalize the American financial system, their own party revolted against them. Most Republicans flatly rejected the bailout and refused to vote for it. Of the 205 votes in favor of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, "140 came from the Democrats and only 65 from the Republicans. Of those opposed, 133 were Republicans and 95 Democrats." These facts are worth revisiting, because, as Tooze tells it, those who refused to vote for TARP would pave the way for the reactionary House Freedom Caucus that has steadfastly stood by Donald Trump.
The links between the financial crisis and the rise of neo-fascism in Hungary and Poland are similarly clear. Both countries had entered European capital markets not with the euro but with their old currencies, the forint and the zloty. Vulnerable and small, Hungary had taken much of its national and household debt in Swiss francs. As the forint collapsed and the franc grew in the wake of the crisis, Hungary and its companies and homeowners found themselves nearly ruined by far-away forces that made their debts untenable. Hungary was "humiliated" by favorable but intrusive IMF and EU loan assistance, which many in Hungary thought made Hungary a colony of the EU and interests of international capital.
To nationalists and those who lost their savings and houses, it was reminiscent of the Trianon Treaty of 1920, which saw the big powers of Europe amputate 70 percent of Hungary's landmass and 75 percent of its population. The far-right Fidesz party, led by Victor Orbán, used anti-Semitic specters of foreign bankers and Jewish conspiracies bringing down Hungary, and set up a home base for what is politely known today as the alt-right. Poland followed suit, though later, with its own shift to Catholic, authoritarian nationalist government.
Of course this does not explain why hard-hit countries such as Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece did not turn to extreme reactionary governments. Italy re-elected Silvio Berlusconi in 2008, and in 2011 elected a series of moderate center and center-left governments, only voting in a nationalist, xenophobic, pro-Russian government this year, after a long simmering migration crisis. Meanwhile, Spain and Portugal have opted for traditional, moderate parties, and Greece chose the democratic socialism of Syriza. Tooze leaves unanswered the question of why the crash pushed some countries to a threshold of intolerance and authoritarianism while others have so-far resisted. Nor does he explore the possibility that the crash only exacerbated existing tendencies, rather than wholly reshaping the politics of the countries hit hardest.
Tooze is a master of the modern financial report and his book is built on a dizzying array of expert reports, studies and Financial Times and Economist articles. He is the financial reader's reader. But this poses some issues: He often enthusiastically follows the official accounts of the most famous leaders, press releases and reports from the OECD, the IMF, the World Bank and the credit ratings agencies. By sticking to the official lines and citing usually the most glamorous figures, he can overlook the fine grain of what actually happened.
Take for example his reading of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis's telling of the Greek debt crisis. Varoufakis claimed that the Germans had offered Greece unsustainable debt and publicly humiliated and crushed the country. Few can argue with that. But Tooze never mentions Varoufakis's disastrously undiplomatic insistence on calling creditors immoral during negotiations (Greece too had its share of blame in the crisis), revealing the closed discussions, violating rebate agreements, and attacking creditors, while threatening to pull out of the monetary union. It served instead to spook creditors and the markets, and to cause a bank run, capital controls, and the loss of tens of billions of euros from the already bankrupt Greece. By treating sources like Varoufakis uncritically, Tooze simply misses the real story.
Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, Hank Paulson and George W. Bush—who gutted the SEC—are portrayed as cool and potentially heroic decision-makers in the face of crisis.
Tooze's account of German economic policy is also relatively superficial, relying on sources such as "the official chronicle of the German finance ministry" and a small sample of news articles. He does not compare various arguments or versions of what happened. This means that rather than critical analysis, we get instead an anodyne summary. Tooze rightly recognizes that Germany's loans to Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain helped stabilize German export markets. What he does not say is that while claiming to be a victim of Greece's profligacy, Germany benefitted from the Greek and southern European debt crisis to an extent that some might find morally dubious.
By causing chaos and uncertainty in the Eurozone, the Greek crisis lowered the value of the euro, and ostensibly allowed over-indebted southern European countries to borrow more at lower cost so they could afford to buy more German goods, which propped up German industry. All the while, this drove down Germany's own interest rates in relation to other countries, allowing them to undercut Italian and French firms, while, at the same time, snapping up Greek assets for next to nothing, and profiting from Greek interest payments to help their own struggling banks. This is the kind of information one can dig out of a critical analysis of the sources, but it requires a willingness to question many of the Olympian authorities on which Tooze relies. That willingness is essential in the difficult historical process of assessing testimony.
In the end, Tooze does not give a clear sense of exactly who caused the crisis. Even Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, Hank Paulson and George W. Bush—who gutted the SEC and made it even harder to see and manage potential fraud and crisis—are portrayed as cool and potentially heroic decision-makers in the face of crisis. Avoiding any specific criticism, Tooze, for the most part, constructs a play-by-play narrative. The same is true when he looks to the future: He rightly warns that national hubris in China could be the source of the next crisis, but has little more to say about who might contribute to this or how.
By his account, we are powerless to control the invisible hand of the global financial system that will bring us another crisis, and we can only react, as Paulson did. "These crises are hard to predict or define in advance," Tooze writes,
They are not anticipated and often deeply complex … And they demand action. It is this juxtaposition that frames the narrative of this book: large organizations, structures and processes on the one hand; decision, debate, argument and action on the other.
There is truth in his depiction of the unwieldy behemoth of global finance. And yet, we know the culprits in this story: investment banks, those who are supposed to regulate them, and the states that take unmanageable debt. We also know that good, unbiased financial auditing is an old and effective tool for measuring risk, debt and capitalization, as are good public financial management and well-designed financial regulations, which were peeled away from the 1990s onwards. As powerless as one might feel, jail time for bankers guilty of misconduct is a deterrent that has not yet been tested. It might just work.
Indeed, Tooze's book makes it clearer than ever that effective regulation is needed. In this light, the recent bi-partisan repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act, created to reign in many of the excesses that caused the crash, looks all the more ominous. And while China risks an unforeseen crisis, Tooze suggests that stable and well-capitalized banks would be more able to weather another crash. Our future is not completely decided by an irrational market. Yet a public that no longer believes in the law's capacity to protect it from the market will turn to terror, autocracy and technocracy over democracy. That is a chilling and convincing conclusion.
Jacob Soll is a professor of history and accounting at the University of Southern California. His most recent book is The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations.
Books, Culture, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Mortgages, Adam Tooze, Crashed, Yanis Varoufakis, Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, George W. Bush, General Motors, Bailout


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AG urged to drop charges against activists who defended Penang flat dwellers
PSM's Choo Chon Kai (left), activist Karthiges Rajamanickam (centre) and secretary-general A Sivarajan at the AG's office in Putrajaya today.
PUTRAJAYA: Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) has urged the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) to drop charges against two of its activists who "defended" families from being evicted from Penang public housing flats last year, saying the police should focus on bigger cases instead.
PSM leader S Arutchelvan questioned the need to pursue the case as the matter had been resolved and there was no element of the use of physical force or rough language.
He said the case involving Karthiges Rajamanickam and Nathan Munusamy, for obstructing a public officer from discharging his duties, was scheduled to continue in July.
"Why do police want to pursue the case? The case can be considered settled as the family has been offered alternative housing at Seberang Perai. There was no element of roughness reported on that day.
"They were just consulting with the authorities due to the housing issue, so why continue with the case?" he told reporters today, after submitting a memorandum to a representative from the AG's office.
Karthiges and Nathan have been charged with obstructing a public officer from discharging his duties under the Penal Code.
The first hearing was held on May 9 and 10, but was postponed to July as the deputy public prosecutor had applied to submit new evidence.
Since November last year, PSM has been helping affected families at the government-owned low-cost flats at Rifle Range, Air Itam, to continue staying there although they were issued notices to vacate the units for not meeting minimum eligibility requirements.
On June 6, Karthiges led a protest at the lobby of Komtar, where some 30 people camped with their pillows and comforters after they were forced to leave their Rifle Range homes.
The Penang government said the affected families had been given time to look for alternative accommodation but had failed to do so. An official said they had been evicted to make way for more deserving families.
However, the state government agreed to provide temporary housing to four families in Batu Kawan, with a rent of RM170 a month, following a meeting with the activists.
Arutchelvan said: "It is not rational to go on with the case as the two activists were just defending the poor folk from being evicted from a low-cost flat. We are writing to Attorney-General Tommy Thomas to drop this case. We hope the DPP and lawyers will not waste their time on this small issue."
Another PSM leader, Choo Chon Kai, said the two activists had only been trying to talk to state government officials to delay the process because the eviction had been done during the fasting month last year.
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Time got closer and I was so excited.. scared but excited. I was young.. and I didn't know how to take care of a baby. Even though it's all I ever wanted. My pregnancy was completely normal for the most part and Camden and I was healthy. Around 30 weeks, there was some concern on how "lazy" Camden was in the womb and how small he was. We saw a specialist just to be safe and was reassured that it was all okay. We would just deliver earlier at 37 weeks.
I was induced and had a very painful labor. But finally, my sweet boy made his arrival and made all the pain worth it. He was tiny, but healthy. We had a typical hospital stay and was sent home to care for my brand new, perfect son.
Life was perfect. Tired but perfect. Camden was healthy and I was so blessed. Looking back now I didn't realize how much I would miss the newborn days.. but maybe it's just the days when life was "normal" that I miss the most.
Months went by and life was good. I had the sweetest little chunky, blonde hair, blue eyed baby.. he was perfect. Every check up come back normal. He was meeting milestones and growing and thriving.. it wasn't until about 7 months the worry began to set in. Camden hasn't stood, he hasn't attempted to crawl. He was content just sitting in one place.
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At around age 2, I began to realize that Camden was changing. He wasn't the social, playful little boy he once was. He had lost skills he had learned. He was just "different." Once again, my worry set in. I knew something was wrong.. a couple months went by and the doctor confirmed my fears. Camden had severe autism.
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Retamar puede estar haciendo referencia a las siguientes poblaciones españolas:
 Retamar, localidad del municipio de Almería, en la provincia de Almería.
 Retamar, localidad del municipio de Almodóvar del Campo, en la provincia de Ciudad Real.
 Retamar, localidad del municipio de Los Llanos de Aridane, en la isla de La Palma, en la provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

 El Retamar, localidad del municipio de Partaloa, en la provincia de Almería.
 El Retamar, localidad del municipio de Moralzarzal, en la Comunidad de Madrid.
 El Retamar, localidad del municipio de Santiago del Teide, en la isla de Tenerife, en la provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

 Retamares, localidad del municipio de Pozuelo de Alarcón, en la Comunidad de Madrid.

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A Year in Reading: Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg December 10, 2010 | 3 books mentioned 2 min read
I especially loved two deliciously strange novels this year: Victor LaValle's Big Machine and Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Running Away.
Big Machine was an impulse buy at the bookstore, after I read jacket copy describing a "band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God." For obvious reasons, I was hooked by the description and curious as to how LaValle would manage to pull all this off.
But pull it off he does. From the first sentence, I fell happily under the spell of the novel's protagonist, Ricky Rice, and soon I was deep in the world of janitorial duties at Union Station in Utica, New York, and secret orders in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and haunted pasts. This is a novel of tremendous ideas and tremendous heart—and, for me, an extraordinary introduction to LaValle. One of my New Year's resolutions will be to read everything he's ever written.
Running Away had an equally hypnotic effect. Previous Toussaint novels—Television in particular—had already made me a fan, and Running Away struck me as being at once very Toussaint-esque and startling new. While Television is largely concerned with stasis, Running Away is devoted to movement. Set in China and the Mediterranean, this novel bounds from one locale to another, laying down connections that are bewildering and enigmatic and, in the end, perplexingly enduring. A side note: the book is worth reading just for the final act, which takes place in Elba. Holy god, it's amazing.
Both Running Away and Big Machine resist practical logic; they cannot be "made sense of" in the traditional manner. And that was precisely why I found both books to be profoundly transporting: I was so swept away by Toussaint's and LaValle's worlds, I stopped caring about the hows and the whys and the what ifs, about matters of plausibility; I only wanted to be there.
Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, which won the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Laura's first novel, Find Me, will be published in February 2015. She lives in the Boston area.
A Year in Reading: Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid December 13, 2013 | 3 books mentioned 4
A Year in Reading: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz December 19, 2014 | 3 books mentioned 2 2 min read
According to the elves at Goodreads, I've read 70 books so far this year, a feat made possible by the fact that I finally figured out how to get New York Public Library audiobooks onto my iPhone. Many were…just fine. Others had me pushing the fast forward button like a post-operative patient with a morphine drip. A few, like Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, were serendipitous discoveries. I was underwhelmed by one series of novels that writer friends have been urging me to read for years, but I was also forced to rethink my Hands-Off-Classic-Literature! position by Jo Baker's Longbourn, which was just wonderful. (Also by the recently televised Death Comes to Pemberley, but I don't suppose that counts…). Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall lived up to its ecstatic reputation (though I'm not sure I'd have been able to follow the action if I hadn't recently watched The Tudors on television…). I decided to read Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton biography in anticipation of The Public Theater's coming tour de force, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (which I was lucky enough to see in workshop), so when I go back to see it another 10 times I'll know more about the man's life and times. My all-around picks for the year? Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief, a scrupulously researched dissection of the cult. (Yes, cult. What, you thought I was going to call it a "religion"?) And John Searles's Help for the Haunted, a beautiful novel about the natural — rather than the supernatural — kind of haunting. Finally: praise for Elizabeth Alexander's memoir, The Light of the World, a meditation on grief and life, which will be published in April 2015.
Jean Hanff Korelitz | 3 books mentioned 2 2 min read
A Year in Reading: Kirby Gann
Kirby Gann December 8, 2005 | 3 books mentioned
As the "A Year in Reading" series continues, I asked Kirby Gann, author of Our Napoleon in Rags, to share with us the best book he read all year. Here's what he said:After thinking over what books I read this past year that have stayed with me, I think I'd have to choose A Void by Georges Perec as my best "discovery" of the year. It's one of the most cleverly effusive novels I've ever read, full of virtuosity, linguistic energy (in both the original and the translation), and unique invention. A metaphysical detective story bursting with plots and sub-plots, it tells the story of the disappearance of a man named Anton Vowl. Interestingly enough, it manages to do so without ever using the letter "e," and yet the prose never feels forced or labored in order to accomplish that lack.The novel is a dazzling display of what a limiting structure can do toward firing the imagination, much like poetic forms such as the sonnet and ghazal do for poets. Usually I don't go for "game" novels, but this one impressed me greatly.Thanks Kirby!
Kirby Gann | 3 books mentioned
Year in Reading: Andrew Saikali
Andrew Saikali December 8, 2007 | 3 books mentioned 2 2 min read
A Year in Reading: Emma Hager
Emma Hager December 20, 2018 | 3 books mentioned 1 8 min read
I lean on books about California or the American West or the "frontier" — that confused, cruel place! — and often resort to rereading a select few.
Emma Hager | 3 books mentioned 1 8 min read
A Year in Reading: Alex Rose
Alex Rose December 11, 2007 | 3 books mentioned 2 min read
Alex Rose is a co-founder and editor of Hotel St. George Press. He is the author of the The Musical Illusionist and Other Tales, praised by Library Journal as "a potential cult classic" and the Village Voice as "uncanny." His stories and essays have appeared in the Reading Room, McSweeney's, the North American Review, the Forward and the Providence Journal, among others. As a filmmaker, Rose's short films and videos have screened in over two dozen festivals worldwide, as well as on many television networks, including HBO, ShowTime, Comedy Central, the BBC and MTV.Of the many atheist manifestos to hit the shelves within the past few years – among them, The End of Faith, Breaking the Spell, and God is Not Great – none have been so deliciously rewarding as The God Delusion, by the world-renowned evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins.It's to his credit that Dawkins has never been concerned with the tactics of the science vs. faith debate, with strategic savvy and political niceties, but simply with determining what is true. He believes that the "God hypothesis" falls in the realm of science in much the same way that other matters, such as the chemical composition of stars, or the mechanics of visual perception were once considered unanswerable until clear-headed investigation proved otherwise. Similarly, he claims, if we are genuinely concerned with the universe, with what exists and what does not, we should want to use modern methods and reasoning to reach a conclusion, as we do with nearly every other practical endeavor, rather than resort to myths, atavisms and soothsayings.Because he is smart, Dawkins is careful not to state unequivocally that no omniscient deity could exist, only that the likelihood is so low that one may just as reasonably presume the existence of Zeus, Thor, or the "flying spaghetti monster." The case he makes for this position is exhaustive, factoring in countless examples from biology, philosophy, history, politics and human rights.As punishing as he can be, however, Dawkins is no provocateur. Indeed, his approach is neither superior and exasperated (like Hitchens and Harris), nor apologetic and kiddy-gloved (like Dennet). Not since Bertrand Russell has the balance between criticism and tolerance, between intellectual rigor and deeply felt compassion, been so masterfully struck.More from A Year in Reading 2007
Alex Rose | 3 books mentioned 2 min read
A Year in Reading: Rick Moody
Rick Moody December 10, 2009 | 3 books mentioned 3
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? By Padgett Powell: Well, yes, as the subtitle inquires, is it really a novel? Or is it a prose-poem? Or is it a work of non-fiction written by deranged, and eccentric genius somewhere out in the deep woods of the South, while slapping at mosquitoes and lamenting, generally, a life lived on the outside? Or is The Interrogative Mood some kind of experiment? Or is it all of the above? Who gives a shit? Is not the more important question whether The Interrogative Mood pleases or displeases? Do you imagine he will next write a volume of answers to the questions?
Would you like to know what else I know about Padgett Powell? Isn't it the case that he once lectured me about the superiority of Lynyrd Skynyrd (when compared to all other bands from the South), indicating that he had seen them perform with the classic line-up, before the airplane accident, and did he or did he not also fall into something remarkably like air guitar in the middle of this disquisition? Is it not, by now, obvious that American fiction is withering, like some container of Chinese takeout left in a lower drawer of the fridge to grow new and more colorful types of mold, and that anything that takes us to a new place is urgently necessary? And can I just say that this new place, the place to which Powell transports us in The Interrogative Mood, not only thrills with its originality, but also moves us, with its odd blend of melancholy and high comedy? What could be better?
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Rick Moody | 3 books mentioned 3
A Year In Reading: Charles Blackstone
Charles Blackstone December 19, 2013 | 3 books mentioned 4 3 min read
Hasn't it always been the case that art is supposed to make you question your assumptions? And radically so? And really good art makes takes all of your assumptions away and reinvents you? That's what Tampa does.
Charles Blackstone | 3 books mentioned 4 3 min read


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Can the key to slowing ALS progression be found in the immune cells of the brain?
Microglia are the primary immune cells of the brain and spinal cord. They patrol the central nervous system to track down and dispose of unwanted cellular debris and dead neurons, as well as organisms like bacteria and viruses that pose a threat of infection. When they detect invaders, they change their behaviour to summon the body's immune response to take care of the problems. After the issues are resolved, the microglia return to their resting state.
However, in many neurodegenerative diseases like ALS, microglia can become chronically overactivated and toxic to neurons. "The chronic activation is like your computer freezing when you have too many browser tabs open," explained Dr. Jasna Kriz, a senior scientist at the CERVO Brain Research Centre at Laval University. "When the microglia are constantly activated and can't return to a resting state, they become overwhelmed, stop responding and prevent the right immune responses from happening."
A new protein discovery
Back in the early 2000s, scientists tested an existing bacterial antibiotic drug called minocycline in human clinical trials to see if it could reduce inflammation and immune responses and therefore slow the progression of ALS in people living with the disease. The trials were not successful. One of the reasons why the drug did not perform as expected was because it worked in a general fashion and did not target the specific mechanisms of inflammation and immune responses seen in ALS.
A postdoctoral student at the time, Dr. Kriz wanted to find out why something that worked so well in three independent lab studies had failed in human clinical trials. She started her own lab and since then, her research has focused on studying the interaction and processes that occur between immune cells and neurons. Some of her previous research has been funded through the ALS Canada Research Program.
Dr. Kriz recently discovered that a protein called serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 3 (SRSF3) can block the genes of the microglia from making the right proteins to support a healthy immune response. It can cause microglia to transform from their usually helpful, healthy state, into abnormal, chronically-activated cells that become toxic to neurons.
Her preliminary research with mice that were genetically altered to model the SOD1 form of human ALS demonstrated this same disrupted immune response in microglia. Additionally, through a collaboration with Dr. Angela Genge, director of the ALS Clinic at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University, Dr. Kriz discovered an increase in SRSF3 activity in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with sporadic ALS but not in people without ALS in a small exploratory study.
With a $125,000 project grant from the ALS Canada Research Program in 2018, Dr. Kriz will investigate further how SRSF3 prevents a healthy immune response and how that process may be involved in ALS. She will conduct lab experiments using cultured microglia from adult SOD1 mice as they are excellent models of human ALS progression and the immune system.
"My hypothesis is that by changing the activity of SRSF3, I will be able to completely reprogram the function of the microglia and slow down disease progression in ALS," said Dr. Kriz. "What's particularly interesting is that SRSF3 is only activated at the time the microglia are changing. If we can block that action, the microglia should remain normal longer, slowing the disease."
Dr. Kriz will try to change the activity of microglia in ALS mouse models with two types of drugs. The first is a drug called a kinase inhibitor, which is already known for its ability to reduce SRSF3 activity in leukemia, a form of blood cancer. The second approach is an experimental "gene-silencing" drug called an antisense morpholino that Dr. Kriz developed in her lab. She hopes that it will reduce the production and activity of SRSF3 and therefore restore a more normal immune response.
If successful, Dr. Kriz hopes that SRSF3 activation will be an exciting new target for future drug development for ALS. "I'm excited that I discovered a mechanism that operates at a time when the disease is already clinically active. That means it may be possible to develop a therapy in the future to help people who already have ALS," said Dr. Kriz.


Leicester came from behind to claim a share of the spoils against Ipswich in a keenly-contested npower Championship encounter which ended 1-1.
There was just 24 seconds on the clock when Lee Martin was upended in the penalty area by Paul Konchesky, who was lucky to avoid an early bath as last man, but Michael Chopra saw Town's first penalty of the season turned away by Kasper Schmeichel.
The visitors, however, had to wait just four minutes for some early festive joy thanks to Lee Bowyer's second goal of the season, which started to look like clinching Ipswich's first away win at Leicester since Boxing Day 2002.
That was until Paul Gallagher's second-half penalty after Jason Scotland's handball, preserving manager Nigel Pearson's unbeaten home record since taking charge although his side are now winless in four.
Town may have missed out on what would have been a third successive victory for the first time this season, but they will be much the happier with a point and have now taken seven from a possible nine after ending a seven-match losing streak.
The 27,091 present had to wait little time for some action as a flowing Ipswich move was brought to an abrupt halt as Martin was brought down in the area by Konchesky, who, as last man, escaped with nothing more than a warning from referee Darren Drysdale.
And Leicester were soon completely off the hook as Chopra's penalty was parried around the post by Schmeichel.
But the hosts had not even got out of their own half when Bowyer lobbed a ball into the box which City failed to clear and the midfielder, who continued the path of his own pass, smashed home the loose ball from six yards.
Match official Drysdale was again at the centre of matters after just eight minutes as Ipswich centre-half Ibrahima Sonko, who like Konchesky was the last man when he fouled Jermaine Beckford, was shown a yellow card.
Gallagher fired the resulting free-kick narrowly wide before Town somehow wasted a great chance to make it 2-0 at the other end, Scotland and Daryl Murphy failing to convert.
The tempo slowed midway through the half, raised only by handbags between Damien Delaney and David Nugent.
Town lost on-loan skipper Keith Andrews to injury just before half-time, with question marks now hanging over the midfielder's fitness before his scheduled January return to Blackburn.
Ipswich kicked off the second half on the front foot but it was Nugent who had the first real chance 10 minutes after the restart, his six-yard volley well saved by Arran Lee-Barrett.
Substitute Jimmy Bullard fired straight at Foxes stopper Schmeichel soon after before the game went into another scrappy lull.
But the King Power Stadium was awoken in the 69th minute when Scotland was penalised for handball in the penalty area and Gallagher fired under the body of Lee-Barrett.
Foxes centre-back Matt Mills missed a wonderful late chance by firing off target from close range in the 89th minute as both sides kick-started the festive period with a point.
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Erika Zekos on Shedding Light
On December 5, at 5 PM, a tobacco shed in Amherst will transform with light.
Shedding Light is a public art project conceived and created by artist/architect Erika Zekos and supported by, among others, the Town of Amherst, the Amherst Cultural Council, and the Swartz Family Farm, where the project will be on display December 5-31. Erika's past projects include Greetings from MY City, which plays off the familiar concept of the tourist site postcard to allow young artists to engage and depict their own communities. Similarly, Shedding Light starts with a familiar sight of the Pioneer Valley – an aging tobacco shed – and illuminates it with a new vision.
We asked Erika about the origins of the project, her background as an artist and architect, and the makings of a truly public work of art.
ArtSake: How did the concept behind Shedding Light, lighting up a tobacco barn from the interior "like an architectural lantern," first occur to you?
Erika: When my family moved to Amherst five years ago we would drive around to explore back roads and hidden places. The very first thought I had when I saw the tobacco sheds for the first time was, "We grow tobacco here?!" and the second was, "Wow, these buildings are so beautiful!" Seeing the sunlight streaming into a shed through the long, vertical panels I knew immediately that I wanted to switch it up and let the light stream out and into the landscape at night.
As with much of my work, the idea is to call attention to the environment (both built and unbuilt) and create a forum for the questions that arise as a result of the work. The more I've learned about the uniqueness, simplicity, and single-use design of the tobacco sheds the more intrigued I've become. It's not my intention to celebrate smoking, but it's certainly an interesting history. Believe it or not, Connecticut Valley shade-grown tobacco is among the best in the world and is used as the wrapper layer of fine cigars. In the peak growing years of the 1920's to 50's 30,000 acres were planted… now it's more like 3,000 acres. It's no surprise then that the sheds built to dry the crop are quickly vanishing as they fall down or the land is developed into shopping malls and housing. I wanted to do something that would highlight the distinctiveness of this architectural vernacular and the vision of the shed filled with light in a winter landscape was a clear idea from the very beginning.
ArtSake: How does your use of a tobacco shed on the hydroponic Swartz Family Farm relate to the core premises of the project?
Erika: Shedding Light is about appreciating the ingenuity and sustainability of our farming history while simultaneously looking ahead to the future. These sheds are 150 year-old examples of the kind of simple, sustainable design that everyone is talking about today; they harnessed the wind to naturally ventilate and dry the tobacco.
Collaborating with the Swartzes is perfect really because it conveys both sides of the coin. Joe and Sarah Swartz are third generation farmers dealing with the realities of bringing their product to market and working 24/7 to make a living. This doesn't leave much for preserving aging tobacco sheds (and the shed that I'm using for Shedding Light is in pretty rough shape at the moment). But at the same time the Swartzes are very forward-thinking farmers themselves: leasing much of their land to neighboring farms and growing lettuces and herbs year round in their greenhouses, using only 1/10th the water that conventional farming requires for the same product. They also operate a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) that invites the community to participate in the success of the farm and share in the harvest.
While the physical aspects of illuminating the shed (light and shadows) will be the easiest to understand, it's the underlying connection to the community (farming, local history, etc.) that I hope keeps this project in the memories of those who experience it.
ArtSake: Nora Maroulis of wunderarts called your project "public art at its best/most impactful." Both Shedding Light and your Greetings from MY City project use artistic creation to enhance and build awareness of one's community. Is it this interaction between art and community that appeals to you, as a public artist? And is it the same appeal that drew you to architecture?
Erika: Absolutely! The interaction between the cultural and physical landscapes is such ripe territory for exploration in both architecture and art. Architecture is about designing a better built environment, but ultimately, it's about the experiences of the people who live in it… my public art projects deal with the architectural too, but tend to be more hands-on with regards to the interaction. They invite you in and ask you to think. Greetings from MY City (a collaboration with my great friend Gretchen Schneider) is a perfect example of that. We invited kids from neighborhoods in inner city Boston and Holyoke to create photo essays of the places and spaces that are important to them. Ultimately we create postcards with a selection of those photos, creating a document of their stories for the wider community.
ArtSake: The Shedding Light project has become a community event, in every sense. The December 5 shed lighting includes a book event, a panel exploring sustainable living and green architecture, and a concurrent art exhibit including your photos of the shed and drawings by Scott Tulay. Can you describe how the project built to this exciting level of public involvement?
Erika: Well, every project that I've ever done as an architectural designer, teacher, or public artist has invited collaboration and the sharing of ideas.
In the case of Shedding Light, the conception of the piece was the easy part; actually seeing it to fruition has been an incredible journey. As soon as I talked with Terry Rooney, the chair of the Amherst Public Art Commission, it was clear that this would blossom into something bigger than the original idea. Terry suggested the idea of offsetting the energy used by the lights with a solar array, which was a perfect fit with the original concept. I then began the work of finding a shed to work with, talking with a professor at UMass Amherst about involving his students in the photovoltaic design, to a lighting designer, electrician, historians, etc. I'm also working with the Amherst Young Artists Coalition to have students document the installation in photos and film.
We were just about to go ahead with the photovoltaic panels when the state ended its rebate program (two years earlier than anticipated due to high demand) so at this point we won't be installing solar array, but we're optimistic about bringing this to the farm in the spring.
All that said, a public education and exhibit component has been a part of the project from the beginning. Scott's drawings are gorgeous and compliment the installation perfectly.
This is Amherst's 250th birthday year and it's a great opportunity to bring a celebration of agriculture and architecture and art to the public in this way.
Shedding Light will be on display at the Swartz Family Farm, evenings from December 5 through December 31, 2009. There will be numerous events on Saturday, December 5, at the Nacul Center in Amherst. At 2 PM will be a lecture by Dary Purinton and Dale Cahill, co-authors of Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley; at 2:45 PM is the panel discussion "Living Green from the Past to the Future;" 3:30 is the opening reception of a concurrent exhibition of new drawings by Scott Tulay and Erika's photos of Shedding Light. At 5 PM at the Swartz Family Farm, the shed will be lit up for the first time.
Erika H. Zekos is an architectural designer, teacher and artist committed to projects in public art, education and architecture. She has completed numerous public art installations in Boston and western MA, as well as practiced residential, institutional and educational design. She is currently the western MA Program Coordinator and master teacher with Learning By Design in Massachusetts, a non-profit design education program. Erika has also taught architecture at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a dedicated community member, serving on the boards of the western MA chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Amherst Education Foundation and the parent organization of her children's school.
Images: photo from a test lighting of SHEDDING LIGHT by Erika Zekos; Scott Tulay, BARN INTERIOR (2009), ink, pastel, charcoal, 22X30 in; Scott Tulay, SHED AT NIGHT (2009), ink, pastel, charcoal, 30×40 in.
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Q: Route params not getting sent to ExpressJS API I'm scratching my head on this.
I'm running an expressjs site with angularjs as my front-end resource, and my problem is that I've set up my API to query my datastore with a parameterized query. When I hit the route, the parameter is not appearing in my angularjs resource query, so I end up just getting the entire data set instead of one object by id.
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what simple mistake am I making, and what other information can I post to help me figure out how to get out of the infinite loop of banging my head on the wall?

A: req.body.id is for the request body, not route parameters, which come from the request URI. You want req.params.id

A: In your Request function, you're passing _id:
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But in your service, you're expecting id:
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That will generate requests looking like this (which is also what your log says):
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Cosmetic surgeon Paul E Banwell appoints Alex Silver PR
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Alex Silver PR has been appointed to handle the press and publicity for consultant plastic and cosmetic surgeon Mr Paul E Banwell. Paul divides his time between the NHS and private sectors and for eight years has held a consultant position at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, as well as running practices on London's Wimpole Street and the McIndoe Surgical Centre. Additionally, Paul is the founder and director of The Banwell Clinic and The Skin Institute UK and Head of The Melanoma and Skin Cancer Unit (MASCU). Paul Banwell is knowledgeable in the fields of wound healing and skin cancer, lecturing worldwide on these subjects, as well as his other specialities in cosmetic breast surgery, body contouring, non-surgical rejuvenation, skin health and cosmeceuticals. Paul has published two books and over 75 papers, chapters and monographs.
Twitter: @PEBanwell
Mr Paul E Banwell in 'beauty, fragrance, grooming & health'


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Q: How to parse the Xcode version as returned by the -showBuildSettings flag in xcodebuild? On a directory that holds an Xcode project, you can run
xcodebuild -showBuildSettings
to get a list of build settings. A few of them relate to the Xcode ver
XCODE_VERSION_ACTUAL = 0940
XCODE_VERSION_MAJOR = 0900
XCODE_VERSION_MINOR = 0940

What's the proper way to parse them to get the Xcode version?
e.g. in the case above, that should be 9.4
Update
Just to clarify, I'm asking how to interpret the 0940. Not how to do the operation from bash.
e.g.
0940 = 9.4
1000 = 10.0

A: I am not a Unix expert, but I believe you need to pipe this command to awk and then extract it and transform it to the format you want.
Something like this might be appropriate:
xcodebuild -showBuildSettings | awk -F= '/XCODE_VERSION_ACTUAL/{x=$NF; gsub(/[^0-9]/,"",x); print int(x)/100}'


I've just got the theme and a few posts up for my new blog, Haiku.
This blog is the means by which I'm keeping track of a project. The project is to write a haiku for each bible study and sermon that I attend (or as many as I can).
The purpose is to summarise what I think are the main points of the bible passages and topics. I hope this will help me both remember them and let them shape my thinking, for making godly and wise decisions in the future.
There's still a little way to go before the site is completely ready; the contact page, for example. However it's an ongoing project so I thought I might as well get it going.
Let me know if you find any nasty issues or if anything about the navigation or layout is confusing. I tried a few different things: the archives page in particular. It's not all typical blog style (no sidebar for instance), but I thought it suited the project. So, let me know if it works or if it's confusing.
I hope some of you will find some enjoyment, inspiration, or challenge in it.
Great idea! And nice execution.
I like it too. Good name, although Hicthusiku is quite catchy too.


generations of the family, respectively, to manage and operate the business.
translate into similar offerings for foodservice.
stays on top of the latest trends using information captured from customers and third-party data.
and determine its manufacturing feasibility.
new tortilla, Mi Rancho looks not only at the market interest, but at how it will be distributed and the financial cost.
for the customer, but for the company."
will remove barriers and generate information faster.
tortillas it is confident to sell to customers.
progress in its branding initiative, LaVere explains.


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Where to Drink: Forest Hills Station House
by Sam DeHority
What makes a place like the Forest Hills Station House—a gastropub and whiskey joint that opened this summer in a residential neighborhood in Queens, New York—more than just a bar? Well, if you're like us, you duck in to a "bar" for a game, a Bud Light, and a dozen hot wings that were probably frozen in a bag about 20 minutes ago. And while you know that a bar is kind of a nameless, faceless spot that you probably won't return to, you're cool with it—at least, just for the night.
The Forest Hills Station House is not just a bar.
Despite having just been built out this year (by the owners of George Keeley in Manhattan's Upper West Side) this semi-industrial looking watering hole exudes the character of a local spot that's been there for decades. And it's clear: the Station House has some serious neighborhood pride. The materials used to construct the place were sourced from local vendors. It features a constant rotation of craft beer created within the area code. The proprietor lives just down the street (in fact, he might even be sitting on the bar stool next to you).
We learned about the Station House after one of our staff editors mentioned he'd stopped by on opening night—and recommended I check it out before its popularity grew. Always down to check out a new spot, I took a short subway ride to Forest Hills, one of Queens cooler neighborhoods.
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A whiskey den and beer hall is only as popular as the libations it serves, and the Station House delivers on both fronts. Popular craft beers like Ommegang and Sixpoint are complimented by offerings from Queens' own Singlecut brewery. You'll be able to expand your palate while testing some of the finer beers from around the world (and if you down 100 of 'em, you'll join the beer club and get your name emblazoned on the pub's wall of fame).
Small batch bourbons offer an option for those looking to sip on something a little stronger, and there are always new flavors and selections being rotated in and out at the Station House. Add in their scotch and rye selections and you're looking at a wide range of options to pour in your glass. Whiskey flights give you the option of three 1.5 ounce glasses to taste and share with friends.
The brews and spirits are worth the visit, but the distinct lineup of gastropub fare is a great reason to stay. My work buddy raved about bolder menu items like chicken wings in pickled pepper sauce and "Many Cheese Mac"—with or without sausage, but I was psyched to discover elevated versions of classic options, including steak and potatoes and ribs (my opinion: you don't find those comfort food dishes in enough restaurants). In the end, I caved to my baser cravings for a classic cheeseburger, and I downed it while watching not one, but a few games on a wall lined with HD flat screen TVs.
While the Forest Hills Station House may cater to those with a taste for something more Instragram-worthy than standard pub fare and suds, it's still a draw for those of us who want to belly up for a good beer, a burger and a ball game.
But whatever ends up getting you in the door or convincing you to linger…don't call it "just a bar."
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Ash, I'm aware of the problem and trying to fix it. But, you know, I'm really helpless at the moment  .
I just couldn't scare my web-host with my angry voice and they're taking forever to fix the problem. Anyway, our site will probably find a new server soon !
Big K I have not gotten a single error in past 8 hours. I think that the problem has been solved!
yay, thanks for fixing it bro!


Faith was born and raised in the Chester County area. Faith graduated from Coatesville Area Senior High School and attended DeVry University for a post-secondary education. Faith resides in South Coatesville with her husband and three children. When she is not spending time with her family and helping her clients, her favorite past time is baking.


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AirAsia aims for 60-70 million passengers a year, from current 36 million
Monday, 17 Dec 2012
12:00 AM MYT
by joseph chin
BROUGHTON: AirAsia Group, which is buying 100 more Airbus aircraft valued at US$9.4bil as it transforms into an Asian airline, sees the potential to achieve the target of between 60 million and 70 million passengers.
AirAsia group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes said the low-cost carrier was in a fantastic part of the world, especially in South-East Asia.
"Ten years ago, we had 200,000 passengers. This year, we are carrying 36 million. The potential to go to 60 million and 70 million passengers is within easy reach," he said during a recent visit to Broughton in Britain where he signed a deal with Airbus to buy the aircraft from Airbus in the presence of British Prime Minister David Cameron.
"We want air travel to be affordable and make Asia a smaller place by making it accessible. We want to bring people to Asia where they never thought of going at fares they never thought would be there," he said.
Fernandes said 50% of AirAsia's destinations are those which had not been served by airlines. It has been able to open new routes and destinations.
"My ambition is that one day AirAsia will be as well-known as Coca-Cola that would be cool. That would be a massive task but if you
don't have ambition, you won't get anywhere," he said.
To recap, the 100 Airbus A320s consist of 36 with the current engine option and 64 with the new engine option. With the latest orders, the low-cost carrier has ordered 475 single-aisle aircraft from Airbus, comprising 264 A320 new engine options and 211 A320 current engine option.
The contract reaffirms AirAsia, Asia's largest low-cost carrier, as the world's largest A320 customer. Fernandes said aircraft demand was very strong, so AirAsia had to move forward its orders to cope with demand. "We had to fill in back orders for 2013, 2014 and 2016 when the new engine options come out," he said.
He added that AirAsia group was looking at options of either buying or leasing, but his view was that it was better to buy the aircraft.
By 2026, AirAsia would have received 475 aircraft and Fernandes does not think the 100 planes would be the last order.
"Many of our new aircraft will go to replace the first ones in 2005. By 2017, they will be about 12 years old. While it seems a huge order, I think we will be back in the market at some stage because the demand is large," he said.
Fernandes said size was important for a low-cost carrier and Airbus had a very strong working relationship with AirAsia's engineering team on how best to utilise the aircraft including having more seats.
On financing for the 100 aircraft and whether AirAsia would look into a rights issue, he said there would not be any need to look into any rights issues.
"We will fund this by our cash and our debt. And our gearing level will remain the same. Our cash is really very strong at the moment. Four years ago, our gearing was at four times. Now our gearing is one time. For any airline growing such like us, that is unheard of," he pointed out.
In the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2012, AirAsia Bhd had RM2.2bil in cash and bank balances with net gearing reduced to 1.03 times this quarter (net gearing was reported at 1.10 times in quarter two).
Fernandes said AirAsia was now in a position to reward shareholders with dividends after its "fantastic growth rate". "We now have cash generating capability and these aircraft do not require any further shareholders funding," he said.
Asked to comment that the share price recently hit fresh 52-week lows and trading a very low price-to-earnings, he said there was an overhang from news about Malindo Air starting operations in Malaysia.
"People have over-reacted. All kinds of crazy thing have come out from there but we have been there before," he said.
He said AirAsia had always grown margins with record profits and it was making headway into Indonesia where it is much smaller than Lion Air.
"The (AirAsia) share price will go down and go up. As long as you keep delivering earnings, people will re-believe in us. It is frustrating for us. We hope they (Malindo Air) will launch quickly and get over and done with it," he said.
Asked whether AirAsia Bhd's share price was recently suppressed by expectations that it could be excluded from the 30-stock FBM KLCI, he said he was unaware of it.
AirAsia Group's Datuk Kamarudin Meranun explained this would take effect on Dec 24, but "purely due to market capitalisation". "It has nothing to do with performance," said Kamarudin. AirAsia and Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Bhd (MMHE) are likely to be replaced by Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd and Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd .
Asked if AirAsia was talking to fund managers that though the share price had recently declined, the fundamentals remained very strong, Fernandes said:
"We are buying our shares back. We believe in it and we are putting the money where our mouth is."
"But proof is in the numbers. We are the most profitable airline in the world. No airline delivered 17% margins with oil price (jet fuel) at US$130.
Tags / Keywords: Business , Business , airasia


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